David Williams Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Create and manage retail gross margins for BAM stores and American Wholesale Book Company. • Create and manage testing for gross margin calculations based on receivers, invoices, and reporting from vendors.• Manage and maintain sales posting for BAM, 2nd and Charles, BAMM.com and Yogurt Mountain corporate stores.• Review and correct Intercompany Sales and AWBC Outside Sales.• Completed month-end closing journal entries to post sales, returns, cost of sales, adjustments, various expense accruals, and reconciled items using Excel templates and Lawson accounting program.• Prepare and present Financial Reporting including Consolidated, BAM, and BAMM.com P&L summary reporting, AWBC, BAMM.com and 2nd and Charles.com P&L’s and Gross Margin Reporting.• Completed monthly reconciliations for all Inventory accounts and various prepaid and payable accounts.• Manage weekly discount changes from Merchant Group to POS system. • Create and maintain yearly AWBC inventory reconciliation.• Audit store inventories conducted by 3rd party.• Manage and aid the inventory control team with retail accounting processes.• Train Inventory accountants in the various systems (Lawson, D&W, AS400).• Assist in the creation and implementation of system upgrades.

• Create and manage retail gross margins for BAM stores and American Wholesale Book Company. • Create and manage testing for gross margin calculations based on receivers, invoices and reporting from vendors.• Manage and maintain sales posting for BAM, 2nd and Charles, BAMM.com and Yogurt Mountain corporate stores.• Review and correct Intercompany Sales and AWBC Outside Sales.• Completed month end closing journal entries to post sales, returns, cost of sales, adjustments, various expense accruals, and reconciled items using Excel templates and Lawson accounting program.• Prepare and present Financial Reporting including Consolidated, BAM, and BAMM.com P&L summary reporting, AWBC and BAMM.com P&L’s and Gross Margin Reporting.• Completed monthly reconciliations for all Inventory accounts, and various prepaid and payable accounts.• Manage weekly discount changes from Merchant Group to POS system. • Create and maintain yearly AWBC inventory reconciliation.• Audit store inventories conducted by 3rd party. • Aid the inventory control team with retail accounting processes.• Train Inventory accountants in the various systems (Lawson, D&W, AS400).• Assist in creation and implementation of system upgrades.

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Responsible for creating journal entries for cost of sales, inventory shrink, markdowns, and various accruals.• Responsible for reconciliations for all inventory, shrink, markdown and markdown reserve accounts.• Prepared monthly reporting and analysis to management.• Prepare shrink analysis and reporting for store physical inventories.• Manage weekly discount changes from Merchant Group to POS system.

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

• Create invoices for completed routes based on bill of ladings provided by drivers.• Maintain Accounts Receivable and collections.• Maintain Accounts Payable and vendor payments.• Managed payroll for drivers and office personnel.• File monthly and quarterly payroll taxes for local, state and federal.• Maintain bank and account reconciliations.• Produce weekly reporting for cash flow management.• Completed additional assignments as assigned.

Bessemer, Alabama, United States

• Confirm and record costs for steel bridge fabrication.• Estimate sales and costs based on percentage of completion of projects.• Assist the controller with the monthly financial preparations.• Maintain account reconciliations.• Assisted and performed network administration duties